feeding brine shrimp

[Brett A Ross]

How often, do you and how dose everyone feed brine shrimp. my son has been hatching and feeding some to his beta fry. I would not mind trying some for my fowlr tank, if it would be appropriate for my inhabitants.



2 Amphiprion percula ( True Percula Clown )

1 Amblyeleotris guttata (orange spotted goby )

1 Centropyge bispinosus ( Coral Beauty Angelfish )

3 Chromis viridis ( Blue Green Chromis )

2 turbo snails

2 nassarius snails

4 fighting conchs

4 blue leg hermits

2 scarlet hermits

1 skunk cleaner shrimp

[Reefland]

It wouldn't be a bad idea to feed it once each day or every other day as a part of a varied diet for your fish. We try to feed our tank 3 times daily, 2 times with mixed flakes and 1 time with Mysis and Cyclop-Eeze.

[rayjay]

Most likely, the only fish to take part in feeding off the nauplii would be those with very small mouths, like cleaner wrasse for instance. Most larger mouthed fish can't be bothered.
I you have a reef tank, the nauplii will feed the tank in general, as the smaller aquatic life will partake of the baby brine. Shrimp will probably get their share as will juvenile fish that are still small. Some corals will take in the larger particle size of nauplii, and most anemones as well.
Don't feed the tank too much unless you know that they are totally being used by the food chain in some positive way, or you can overload the biological filtration of your tank.
You can always order live adult brine shrimp for feeding to your larger mouthed fish.
For those of you claiming that brine shrimp adults have no nutrition, the protein content is basically the same % as comercially prepared marine foods, and, the brine shrimp can be gut loaded with products such as spirulina and Selco before feeding them to your fish.
The marine mariculture industry makes big use of nauplii and adult brine shrimp as part of the diet of the foods they feed in raising fish and shrimp for comercial food sales.